The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), an agency within the U.S. Treasury charged with combatting money laundering and financing of terrorism, has renewed the Geographic Targeting Orders (GTOs) that impose data collection and reporting requirements on title companies involved in certain residential real estate transactions, effective November 12, 2019, through May 9, 2020.

The Association Health Plans Toolkit has been updated to include data from the 2019 Health Insurance Survey and model legislation that may serve as a template for building united state legislative efforts to codify provisions enabling independent contractors to join AHPs.

The anti-money laundering (AML) legislation is designed to stop the formation of anonymous shell companies created under state law that are often used by bad actors to launder money or to commit other illicit financial crimes.